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Fan Creations / Machina's Writing and non-drawing art
« on: March 07, 2009, 01:01:08 AM »
I am Machina Kyrios, Director of the Intentions Project and Legendary Slacker. Emphasis on that second title.
Since I've started working on Megaman stuff again (after taking winter off for working on hard SF) I figured I might as well make a thread. ^_^
Two things to start out with. First is Awakening, the first main sequence arc of Intentions which hasn't been updated since October thanks to said winter break. Hopefully I'll have the second chapter up soon, but hey, now it's there. The current Intentions project is a reboot of a previous version that was around for a few years on other communities. I wrote myself into a corner, got sick of all the plot holes, and decided to restart things with as manyminio contributors from the last project brought into the new project's fold as I could. Maybe this time I'll update more than once every few months. (Break aside! Doesn't count!)
And the second is a mechaniloid design.
Just a Maverick mechaniloid series that popped into my head during a period of writers block that I decided to render. It doesn't have a proper name yet, other than just being called a sentry, but already has two variants. Standard, with twin plasma cannons, Deluxe, with a dual plasma cannon and a chainsaw, and MD (guess the initials) with twin miniguns.
Just a simple little model and render.
Since I've started working on Megaman stuff again (after taking winter off for working on hard SF) I figured I might as well make a thread. ^_^
Two things to start out with. First is Awakening, the first main sequence arc of Intentions which hasn't been updated since October thanks to said winter break. Hopefully I'll have the second chapter up soon, but hey, now it's there. The current Intentions project is a reboot of a previous version that was around for a few years on other communities. I wrote myself into a corner, got sick of all the plot holes, and decided to restart things with as many
And the second is a mechaniloid design.
Just a Maverick mechaniloid series that popped into my head during a period of writers block that I decided to render. It doesn't have a proper name yet, other than just being called a sentry, but already has two variants. Standard, with twin plasma cannons, Deluxe, with a dual plasma cannon and a chainsaw, and MD (guess the initials) with twin miniguns.
Just a simple little model and render.
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Rockman Series / Rockman Science Hour - Theory, techbabble, and handwavium, oh my
« on: February 25, 2009, 04:28:59 AM »
Internal consistency, truly thou art worthy of being called "Savior"
To look upon the Rockman series with the eye of a hard science fiction writer should be to sacrifice one's own sanity, but while the writing suffers in spots, internal consistency confers upon the series the ability to be analyzed, to be studied and dissected until even what was unintended comes to light. There is no element in the main sequence of series that the technological basis of an element, save those in the earliest of classic series games, that cannot be traced to an earlier technology or could not reasonably be created with that technological base. (The EXE/Star Force spinoff tends to be a little more shaky at times.)
As with any analysis of fiction, catgirls will die, wild conjectures will be made, and someone will probably analyze things way too deeply and come to the conclusion that Doctor Cain had a sex change mid way through X4 and put his mind in a Reploid body to become Layer.
And to start things off, I'd like to state the conjecture that Doctor Wily's alien hologram in MM2 and Gemini Man are the reason the various viruses in the X era and the cyber elves can behave like they do.
Looking at both the alien hologram and Gemini Man's copy, we can see that both employ some kind of hard light structure, likely employing force fields of some kind. We can determine this easily by running into either at full force and monitoring how much damage is received. Any amount of damage sustained higher than "none" would support this belief. This is important in that both the alien hologram and Gemini Man's double employ a projected energy weapon of some kind. While it is conceivable that the projected weapons fire somehow originates from the source of the hologram, observation would suggest that doing so would be visible to the player in the same way that the projected energy attack itself is, since that's the kind of thing Capcom is quite good with in those days.
Assuming that the projected energy weapon is a compressed plasma weapon similar to Rock's primary weapon, the use of it by the hologram would suggest sophisticated workings all emulated using force fields. The hologram would have to, using a set of actions that are pure speculation, draw in air, compress down the gasses, possibly filtering out that which it doesn't need, charge it, and keep it contained likely using a short lived mobile force field to keep the plasma from diffusing upon firing. (A technique Rock, X, and all buster users also likely use.) For such actions to be emulated using hard light holograms, it is not that far of a leap to a hologram that emulates a small fusion reactor to supply its own power, a purely light-based computer to provide it with independent thought, and even its own force field and holographic emitters to maintain its own structure.
Of course, it's all the ramblings of one fan. ^_^
Thus, I open these doors to the scientifically minded. Any other thoughts on Rockman technology and science?
To look upon the Rockman series with the eye of a hard science fiction writer should be to sacrifice one's own sanity, but while the writing suffers in spots, internal consistency confers upon the series the ability to be analyzed, to be studied and dissected until even what was unintended comes to light. There is no element in the main sequence of series that the technological basis of an element, save those in the earliest of classic series games, that cannot be traced to an earlier technology or could not reasonably be created with that technological base. (The EXE/Star Force spinoff tends to be a little more shaky at times.)
As with any analysis of fiction, catgirls will die, wild conjectures will be made, and someone will probably analyze things way too deeply and come to the conclusion that Doctor Cain had a sex change mid way through X4 and put his mind in a Reploid body to become Layer.
And to start things off, I'd like to state the conjecture that Doctor Wily's alien hologram in MM2 and Gemini Man are the reason the various viruses in the X era and the cyber elves can behave like they do.
Looking at both the alien hologram and Gemini Man's copy, we can see that both employ some kind of hard light structure, likely employing force fields of some kind. We can determine this easily by running into either at full force and monitoring how much damage is received. Any amount of damage sustained higher than "none" would support this belief. This is important in that both the alien hologram and Gemini Man's double employ a projected energy weapon of some kind. While it is conceivable that the projected weapons fire somehow originates from the source of the hologram, observation would suggest that doing so would be visible to the player in the same way that the projected energy attack itself is, since that's the kind of thing Capcom is quite good with in those days.
Assuming that the projected energy weapon is a compressed plasma weapon similar to Rock's primary weapon, the use of it by the hologram would suggest sophisticated workings all emulated using force fields. The hologram would have to, using a set of actions that are pure speculation, draw in air, compress down the gasses, possibly filtering out that which it doesn't need, charge it, and keep it contained likely using a short lived mobile force field to keep the plasma from diffusing upon firing. (A technique Rock, X, and all buster users also likely use.) For such actions to be emulated using hard light holograms, it is not that far of a leap to a hologram that emulates a small fusion reactor to supply its own power, a purely light-based computer to provide it with independent thought, and even its own force field and holographic emitters to maintain its own structure.
Of course, it's all the ramblings of one fan. ^_^
Thus, I open these doors to the scientifically minded. Any other thoughts on Rockman technology and science?
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